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APRIL 29, 2024

As a data-center network engineer with Meta’s network infrastructure team, Susana Contrera is playing a leading role in this unprecedented technology rollout. Her job is about “bringing designs to life,” she says. But she decided to pursue a career in engineering because of her parents, who were small-business owners.

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DECEMBER 29, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $7 million to projects at eight universities to accelerate the introduction of affordable, scalable, and sustainable high-performance fuels for use in high-efficiency, low-emission engines. University of Michigan. University of Michigan-Dearborn. University of Alabama.

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DECEMBER 22, 2016

Control of fuel sprays is key to the development of clean, affordable fuel-efficient engines. Intended for industry, software vendors and national laboratories, the consortium provides a direct path from fundamental research to validated engineering models ultimately used in combustion engine design. —Lyle Pickett.

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APRIL 4, 2024

The IEEE Jamaica Section is acting as a catalyst to engage and inspire the island nation’s next generation of engineering and technology professionals. The section held a first-of-its-kind workshop in January at the University of Technology in Kingston. Students from several local schools and universities participated in the event.

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JANUARY 27, 2022

The MIT electrical engineering and computer science professor’s positive thinking has led to new ways to improve tried-and-true techniques in the field of information theory. The chip uses a new algorithm the team developed with Ken Duffy from Maynooth University : guessing random additive noise decoding (GRAND).

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AUGUST 5, 2020

Applied Information will exclusively implement C-V2X technologies developed by Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., while working with the Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) and the University of Hawaii College of Engineering to extend the deployment of connected vehicle infrastructure across the entire state of Hawaii with C-V2X.

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

To accomplish tasks, they need both a well-designed body and a “brain,” or controller. Engineers can use various simulations to improve a robot’s control and make it smarter. But there are few ways to optimize a robot’s design at the same time. Unless the designer is an algorithm. The same is true for robots.

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DECEMBER 28, 2021

MADNI University of California, Los Angeles “For pioneering contributions to the development and commercialization of innovative sensing and systems technologies, and for distinguished research leadership.” Kumar Texas A&M University College Station “For seminal contributions to the modeling, analysis, and design of wireless networks.”

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APRIL 4, 2023

Discussions at chip design conferences rarely get heated. But a year ago at the International Symposium on Physical Design , things got out of hand. The crux of the clash was whether Google’s AI solution to one of chip design’s thornier problems was really better than humans or state-of-the-art algorithms. Wash, rinse, repeat.

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DECEMBER 16, 2019

The University of California San Siego (UCSD) has formed the San Diego Institute for Materials Discovery and Design, a joint initiative of the Jacobs School of Engineering and Division of Physical Sciences at UCSD. Installation of the TEM is expected to be complete by January 2020.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Now Madni—a professor of astronautics, aerospace, and mechanical engineering at the University of Southern California —is working to transform engineering education. Ramo served as a presidential chair and professor of electrical engineering at USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering from 2008 until he died in 2016.

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MAY 28, 2019

In an open-access paper published in the Journal of Biological Engineering , the team compiles performance data on biological and non-biological component choices for rewired carbon fixation systems and identifies research and engineering challenges. At the same time, having many options also creates too many engineering choices.

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MARCH 28, 2024

At least, that’s what researchers at Brown University did, by building a wireless communications system that mimics the brain using an array of tiny silicon sensors, each the size of a grain of sand. That receiver then decodes the information. To gain a better understanding of the brain, why not draw inspiration from it?

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MAY 21, 2020

On the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Notice of Violation: VW diesel engines with 1.6 liters displacement (type code EA 189) contained illegal software designed to manipulate emissions. For commercial vehicles with EA 189 engines—i.e.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. —Jeff Sakamoto, professor of mechanical engineering at U-M and director of the new center.

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OCTOBER 20, 2015

Daimler Greater China and Beijing’s Tsinghua University have signed a contract to continue and further to expand their research cooperation begun in 2012 for another 3 years. The expanded research collaboration with Tsinghua University again shows Daimler’s clear commitment to R&D activities in China.

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JANUARY 10, 2020

In a first, University of Sydney researchers have found evidence of how hydrogen causes embrittlement of steels. This information is vital for designing embrittlement-resistant steels. Credit: University of Sydney. This effect has the potential to be used to design steels that can resist embrittlement.

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JANUARY 23, 2023

University of Queensland researchers, working in collaboration with the Technical University of Munich (TUM), have found a way to convert sugarcane into isobutanol— a building block of aviation fuel and other products—more efficiently. An open-access paper on the work is published in Chemistry - a European Journal.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Engineering education has evolved during the past year. The COVID-19 pandemic forced colleges and universities to close classrooms and shift to remote learning, prompting instructors to adapt their curricula and teaching style. interactive four-part virtual-event series to equip engineering educators with best practices.

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JULY 6, 2017

Researchers at Rutgers University-New Brunswick and Michigan State University have devised a way to reduce the amount of enzymes needed to convert biomass into biofuels by designing and genetically engineering enzyme surfaces so they bind less to the lignin in biomass. Enzymes cost about $0.50 —Whitehead et al.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Working with collaborators at the University of Michigan and Toyota Motor North America, the team is sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) as part of its Next-Generation Energy Technologies for Connected and Automated On-Road Vehicles (NEXTCAR) program. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 1, 2024

Diversity of thought in industrial design is crucial: If no one thinks to design a technology for multiple body types, people can get hurt. Even now, some modern studies used in the design of fall-detection technology rely on methods like hiring stunt actors who pretend to fall.

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DECEMBER 16, 2022

ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM LYDIA KAVRAKI Rice University Houston “For foundational probabilistic algorithms and randomized search methods that have broad impact in robotic motion planning and computational biology.” IEEE MILDRED DRESSELHAUS MEDAL Sponsor: Google, LLC MELBA CRAWFORD Purdue University West Lafayette, Ind. IEEE FRANCES E.

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JUNE 26, 2023

Landing a job in the video-game industry is a dream for many young engineers, but for Sushama Chakraverty , it was a happy accident. Sushama Chakraverty Employer: Sledgehammer Games, Toronto Title: Senior User Interface Engineering Manager Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer engineering, D.Y. I was having too much fun.”

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

The four-year project will leverage Virginia Tech’s research and cross-discipline expertise on engine operation, instrumentation, and geosciences as well as the current research relationships that both Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce have with the university. —Changmin Son, the Rolls-Royce Commonwealth Professor at Virginia Tech.

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Design-driven engineering process. Coarse-grained mechanistic modeling identifies design parameters to produce targeted device outputs. Components meeting the design specifications are then engineered and individually characterized. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 8, 2022

Rather, the data and communication systems are designed to be incredibly, unquestionably dependable and reliable. It’s an ideal location for JWST to observe the universe without obstruction and with minimal orbital adjustments. He became the mission systems engineer in 2004. “I The Webb’s comms aren't flashy. One is the 2.09

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is investing nearly $80 million in four new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms in the fields of living cell-based therapies, personalized heart tissue, point-of-care health systems and fuel derived from shale gas. hydrocarbon resources.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has released two studies from the Co-Optimization of Engines & Fuels initiative ( Co-Optima ) ( earlier post ). These new blendstocks, co-optimized with advanced gasoline engines, show potential to improve passenger vehicle fuel economy by 10%. Efficiency Merit Function.

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AUGUST 10, 2015

million in three new Engineering Research Centers (ERCs) to create novel technology platforms and transform industries. Design tools will be used to create optimal system-level and subsystem-level designs. Nature-inspired soil engineering. The US National Science Foundation (NSF) has invested $55.5

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AUGUST 6, 2014

The two projects are part of a larger multi-year DOE-funded project to develop and to apply innovative simulation strategies and tools to maximize benefits of predictive information from high performance computing (HPC) for internal combustion engines. The current design optimization process is very time- and labor-intensive.

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OCTOBER 19, 2013

The University of Michigan Board of Regents approved plans to proceed with the design of a unique environment for testing connected and automated vehicles. This project, which includes several industry participants,is providing data to inform future policy decisions by the US DOT.

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AUGUST 4, 2014

The US National Science Foundation has issued a solicitation ( 14-591 ) for up to $22 million in awards under its Designing Materials to Revolutionize and Engineer our Future (DMREF) program. The DMREF goal is to control material properties through design. Earlier post.) —NSF 14-591.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. as a software engineer.

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OCTOBER 29, 2023

The 10-day camp for students ages 13 to 17 provides an immersive and fun approach to learning about engineering. The teenagers engage in hands-on activities, speak with working engineers, and make field trips to local engineering organizations. In its inaugural year in 2018, 80 students participated; this year 330 attended.

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JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. The Research Foundation for The SUNY Stony Brook University. University of Delaware. University of Maryland. Solid Power Inc.

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MAY 29, 2022

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine have found that autonomous vehicles can be tricked into an abrupt halt or other undesired driving behavior by the placement of an ordinary object on the side of the road. The team recently. —lead author Ziwen Wan, UCI Ph.D. student in computer science. Ziwen Wan et al.

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